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A kindergarten teacher in Washington posted a TikTok detailing how she flooded her students with LGBTQ propaganda, including coloring Pride flags, reading LGBTQ books, and watching a drag queen video.

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She works for a public school so keep in mind funding from state, federal and local sources keeps her employed.
I'm pretty sure this "Ms. Sin" is a man. Just based on his face and his bigass hands.
 
I'm curious and mean no ill will or snark but if American bases/troops in the middle east were attacked even by accident would the "no more desert wars" crowd still be against intervention?
 
Aw goddamnit Ken Jennings
Oh look, another Mormon being an absolute faggot.
Jeopardy has declined so fucking far in the past few years. You can tell the writers room is infested with the worst people in society. Ken Jennings has negative charisma and wants to try to show how much smarter he is than the contestants. My personal football rooting interests aside, they really would have been better off going with Aaron Rodgers for the full-time gig.
 
Men like Ford were kind of special individuals to be fair. Sure there was the Dearborn Independent and The International Jew but at the same time he believed in five-day work weeks and welfare capitalism. His mindset in the corporate world doesn't really have much of a place anymore, money clearly wasn't total the be-all and end-all to him. The same can't really be said for the individuals who advocated for and profited from outsourcing Western factories in the late 20th and early 21st century.
A part of me wonders if Ford didn't just say those things to keep the German market open, since under their economy domestically if you didn't comply they just took it off you or banned you. Ford owned a couple of subsidiaries in Germany that they would've lost if he didn't play ball and considering how direct and honest he was as a character, he was either totally on board with the ideology or was just being over the top in rhetoric to keep in business there. He also did business with the Soviets in 1929, so it's difficult to pin what his deal was.
After two years of exploratory visits and friendly negotiations, Ford Motor Company signs a landmark agreement to produce cars in the Soviet Union on May 30, 1929.

The Soviet Union, which in 1928 had only 20,000 cars and a single truck factory, was eager to join the ranks of automotive production, and Ford, with its focus on engineering and manufacturing methods, was a natural choice to help. The always independent-minded Henry Ford was strongly in favor of his free-market company doing business with Communist countries. An article published in May 1929 in The New York Times quoted Ford as saying that “No matter where industry prospers, whether in India or China, or Russia, all the world is bound to catch some good from it.”

Signed in Dearborn, Michigan, on May 31, 1929, the contract stipulated that Ford would oversee construction of a production plant at Nizhny Novgorod, located on the banks of the Volga River, to manufacture Model A cars. An assembly plant would also start operating immediately within Moscow city limits. In return, the USSR agreed to buy 72,000 unassembled Ford cars and trucks and all spare parts to be required over the following nine years, a total of some $30 million worth of Ford products. Valery Meshlauk, vice chairman of the Supreme Council of National Economy, signed the Dearborn agreement on behalf of the Soviets. To comply with its side of the deal, Ford sent engineers and executives to the Soviet Union.

At the time the U.S. government did not formally recognize the USSR in diplomatic negotiations, so the Ford agreement was groundbreaking. (A week after the deal was announced the Soviet Union would announce deals with 15 other foreign companies, including E.I. du Pont de Nemours and RCA.) As Douglas Brinkley writes in “Wheels for the World,” his book on Henry Ford and Ford Motor, the automaker was firm in his belief that introducing capitalism was the best way to undermine communism. In any case, Ford’s assistance in establishing motor vehicle production facilities in the USSR would greatly impact the course of world events, as the ability to produce these vehicles helped the Soviets defeat Germany on the Eastern Front during World War II. In 1944, according to Brinkley, Stalin wrote to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, calling Henry Ford “one of the world’s greatest industrialists” and expressing the hope that “may God preserve him.”
Corporations today don't have sole owners anymore, not really. Ford had to deal with the bullshit that came with public ownership in 1919, so he promptly bought back all the shares and kept sole ownership of the company until he died. There's a handful that still exist but they're an unfortunate minority, and I can only name a handful off hand such as Valve, Aldi, Mars. They tend not to reach the same financial peaks as their publicly-traded counterparts, but they have better PR by virtue of the fact they don't fall prey to the usual practices of their publicly traded peers. CEOs of big private companies tend to become celebrities by virtue of their wealth so they have their own personal image to care about, since by all accounts they are the company.

Going public nowadays is a Faustian bargain, since once it's out there, you're probably never going to make it fully yours again if it does well; they basically become everyone's property, and nobody who ends up in charge thereafter will make enough cash to buy it outright for themselves so unless it crashes and burns (which is impossible nowadays due to investor protections), it becomes impossible for any one individual to do so. Ford had to take out loans just to achieve this in 1919.

Companies actually profit from buying back shares to pump up the value of what's left so people are encouraged to buy the increased value of the shares when they see it rise - half a company's profits often go to doing this. When you see a company makes 14 billion in net revenue, a 3rd of that profit - at minimum - is going into stock buybacks. Apple, for example, used the tax cuts implemented under Trump to just spend more on buybacks. The biggest positive I can see from the tariffs is the potential companies will be forced to spent buyback money on literally anything else to keep their expected rate of growth. Fiduciary responsibility with government backing arguably kills corporate independence (even if a public company has a majority shareholder - remember Musk and Delaware?) and innovation more than other restrictions since risk is eliminated entirely.

Would modern Ford try to conduct business with 3 competing powers (Nazis, Soviet Union, the Allies) all at the same time? That sort of risk taking is just gone nowadays. Not to fellate Elon too hard but I just mentioned him: this autist tried to (and successfully) create a space agency, something that potentially would never see a profit - all because he wants to go to space. Read how it got started: he just gave a dude 100k as a donation because he said he's going to try and put a greenhouse on Mars. Maybe that's the missing ingredient from modern corporations: autism.

Would Henry Ford of been a lolcow today?
 
Texas is major oil state. Yet thanks to green energy retardery that were imposed on a federal level by Democrats, sometimes Texans lose their electric heat in the winter, and some can hardly afford AC in the summer. During Biden’s War on Energy, they were discouraged from utilizing their fossil fuel and technological resources to produce economically efficient energy. Imagine if William Faulkner had to deal with the resulting energy bills:
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Trump- I WON’T GET US INVOLVED IN FOREVER WARS!

He’s about to get us involved in the oldest forever war in history
It's been nearly a week and people are still fear mongering over Trump and Iran. I'm starting to think you people want him to bomb Iran at this rate because you wouldn't be crying so much over something he hasn't done yet otherwise
 

NOW - Trump says "intelligence community is wrong" that Iran is not building nuclear weapons.
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Edit: I thought he said they were wrong about Iran building nuclear weapons I.E. Israel's strikes were basically unjustified. I wouldn't have bothered sharing this otherwise because I thought my misreading was a lot funnier.
 
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NOW - Trump says "intelligence community is wrong" that Iran is not building nuclear weapons.
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If he doesn't trust Gabbard, he should fire her. If this is showmanship, it is retarded and undermines her ability to do her job.

It sure as shit sounds like ODNI is telling him "Hey, the kikes are trying to get you to do their dirt on our dime. We have no indication that Iran is any closer to a nuke than 22 years ago."

Say what you want about Gabbard, but the one thing I am completely confident in, is that she will not go along with a plan to launch another baseless forever war. I can't say the same of most of the other potential candidates for DNI that can actually get confirmed.
 
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>nosering
repulsive people like this are given access to your children at your expense.
I knew a chick online from Pennsylvania that had one of those. She would always complain about jobs not hiring her because she had those noserings and they didn't like it, so she got pissed about it and claimed they were discriminating her because of it. I don't get why she couldn't just take them off when working and then put them back in after work. i think it was something along the lines of "it's my identity" and "freedom of expression" that those kinds of people like to spew.

Incidentally she also had Sonic and Tails tattooed on her lower back, so make of that what you will.
 
Alex Trebek generally had the good sense to just be polite and ask the goddamn trivia
I miss him, bro. Jeopardy started getting more and more woke after he died. It's like the fuckers were champing at the bit, waiting for him to go so they could push their progtard nonsense into yet another media franchise.
 
Day late, but yesterday I was told not to clock in so that my boss would have to give me holiday pay for Juneteenth. They're editing my timecard to make it look like I worked on our day off instead. I get it's a stupid holiday but it's kinda unfair considering they already pay me peanuts and I'm the one keeping the company afloat.
 
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